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NAME: Alex
AGE: Just about 25.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: reading, writing, graphic making, volunteering, computers, web design, being alone, spending time with friends once in a blue moon, making lists, roleplaying
LOOKING FOR: Just people to try and get to know?
ANYTHING ELSE?: I'm in Australia, looking to move to the UK. I work at a Library, study Archiving and volunteer in about four or five different places. I'm the oldest of three children, I post about my RL, fandom stuff is intermixed but not dominate it might take up a paragraph or less. I"m rather random. I try not to post solely about it too much as I have a number of journal friends who aren't into fandom and really it could be boring after awhile to them!

I'm highly organised, I love being busy and often am but I do get online quite a bit too. I have goodreads as well as the sites below. I'm a MASSIVE reader - mostly YA fantasy, sci-fi and history but a good dose of adult in it. I pretty much won't touch chicklit/erotica etc but will give anything else at least a shot. If I want RL I'll go outside 'kay?

ALSO KNOWN AS:

theladyunicorn

theladyunicorn

Okay... Try theladyunicorn nearly everywhere and you'll get me :P

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True, true. It's so tempting to get caught up in all of the fascinating details... so have I, and that the winter is most of the year.
I'm not entirely sure, but the literature and other arts are splendid regardless.

*nodnod*

Today I claimed "Paradise Lost" done enough so I'm roughly "on track" - if that even means anything to anyone. What it means to me is that I don't have to say I've read many more than I already have been saying I have been reading per diem to make that GR goal. If I do, then I mean to add 10 or 20 to next year.
I read all the time, it's just a matter of actually saying anything on the Internet about it.
There is no race.

We'll just have to live vicariously :)

Great to hear, one more book read is always an excellent thing to achieve :D I used to read a lot more than I do now due to RL. I'm starting to enjoy Talking Books and am trying my hand at eBooks too just so I can read on the go...

^_^

RL can get so nasty.
I'm suspicious of audiobooks (they don't feel like the same thing), though it's very true the Ivan Denisovich one fixed my inherent laziness with grokking the stream of text Solzhenitsyn suggested.

It can :(

I totally understand that. Until 2012 I wasn't a fan of them at all. Then I moved out of home and it was taking me at LEAST 45mins each way to and from work so I started to listen and I fell in love?

All we can do is fight the disagreeable parts.

I'm still not a really big fan of audiobooks, but perhaps I'm just being persnickety about how I get my fix of human contact.

Amen.

I get that.